Staff

Ms. Lisa Holik received her B.A. from McMaster University and her CSS in Business Administration and Management from Harvard University. She has several years experience at Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and the University of California, Irvine. Before working in academia she worked in the private sector. She joined BU-CMD as the Center Administrator in September, 2013.

Edith began her chemistry training at Florida Atlantic University where she received her Bachelor’s degree. She then continued her PhD studies at the same institution (2012) working with Dr. Salvatore D. Lepore as a NSF graduate research fellow. As part of her PhD work, she developed new methods for the synthesis of isoxazolines and pyrazolines and performed detailed studies on the mechanisms of these transformations. During the summers of 2014 and 2015, Edith went for an internship to Eli Lilly & Co. in Indianapolis where she worked on a diabetes related project in the R&D division. She joined BU-CMD as a postdoctoral fellow in November 2017.

Wenhan did his undergraduate research in Prof. Bo Liu’s group at Sichuan University, where he focused on total syntheses of heliespirones and hirsutellone B. After he received his B.S. from Sichuan University, Wenhan moved to University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas to pursue his Ph.D. There, he worked on the syntheses and applications of aryl ynol ethers as well as total syntheses of dictyodendrins F, H, and I under the guidance of Prof. Joseph Ready. He is now investigating a medicinal chemistry project using the analogs of rocaglates against HCV. He joined BU-CMD as a postdoctoral fellow in October, 2016.

Mr. Kavouris received his BA in chemistry from Boston University in 2011. In 2014, he received his MS in organic chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh and returned to Boston University as a research fellow for BU-CMD. His current project focuses on the design and synthesis of antileishmanial compounds as part of a collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline.

Julie is a 2nd year graduate student from Dr. Sandor Vajda’s Structural Bioinformatics Lab at the Biomedical Engineering Department. Her current research focuses on synthesizing small molecules for fragment-based drug design.

Mr. Cyr is a senior at Boston University. He expects to receive a B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a M.A. in Biotechnology in Fall 2018. His current project focuses on the design and synthesis of novel amino rocaglate compounds. He joined the CMD in May 2016 as an undergraduate research assistant.

Erik is a sophomore at Boston University in the Department of Chemistry. He expects to receive their B.A. in Chemistry: Biochemistry in 2020. His current project focuses on the large scale synthesis of an antipox viral chemotype. He joined the CMD in June 2017 as an undergraduate research assistant.

Ms. DianneMarie Omire-Mayor is a senior at Boston University in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She expects to receive her B.A. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in May 2018. Her current project focuses on the design and synthesis of macrocycles of various substrates. She joined the CMD in Fall 2016 as an undergraduate research assistant.

Christopher is a sophomore at Boston University in the Department of Chemistry. He expects to receive his B.A. in Chemistry in 2021. His current project involves the large-scale synthesis and characterization of novel rocagalate compounds. He joined the BU-CMD in June 2018 as an undergraduate researcher.